Authorities have identified a motorcyclist who died Friday evening while attempting to flee a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office traffic stop.

According to Tennessee Highway Patrol, Michael Dollahite, 37, of Clarksville, was traveling west on Salem Road around 6:10 p.m. when he struck another vehicle head-on and was fatally thrown from the motorcycle.

Troopers say Dollahite was driving “at a high rate of speed” while fleeing from a traffic stop initiated by a deputy, though the deputy reportedly wasn’t chasing Dollahite’s motorcycle.

While traveling around a curve to the right, Dollahite’s 2001 Yamaha motorcycle crossed the center line to the left and struck a 2017 Ford Fusion traveling the opposite direction.

He was thrown from the bike and onto the Ford’s windshield before continuing over the top of the car and landing on the south edge of Salem Road.

The 51-year-old female driver was also injured, though it wasn’t immediately clear the extent of her injuries.

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